Now, that church's congregation faces the shock of a funeral for her husband, Patrick Naughton, who was killed in a snowmobile crash in this Adirondack town on Sunday.

“They just had a beautiful ceremony celebrating Maura's life, and I'm sure Patrick just needed to get away,” the Rev. Patrick Mulewski of St. Pius X said Monday.

Webb Police Chief John Russell said Patrick Naughton, who was 64, had been staying in the area with some family members after the death of his wife.

“They had brought him up here to get his mind off of that,” Russell said, referring to what a family member told him.

Patrick Naughton was operating a snowmobile with his 7-year-old granddaughter southbound on the Big Moose Road at about 2:10 p.m. Sunday when he failed to round a left-hand curve, about half a mile north of Eagle Bay, according to Webb and Inlet police.

Naughton's snowmobile left the highway and struck a large birch tree, police said. Naughton and his granddaughter Shannon Garrity were thrown from the snowmobile, police said.

Naughton was pronounced dead while en route to St. Elizabeth Medical Center in Utica. The cause of death is unknown pending an autopsy, police said.

Garrity suffered a knee injury and was transported by Inlet Ambulance to St. Elizabeth, police said. Her condition could not be learned Monday.

The cause of the accident is believed to be driver inexperience and unsafe speed, police said.

The Naughtons lived in a borough in Bergen County, N.J. They were founders and owners of Leaf Free Home Improvements.

Maura Naughton was born in County Clare, Ireland, according to her obituary. Mulewski said some of her siblings made the journey from Ireland to her funeral on Feb. 1.